Follow up- I did upgrade to X12 but after talking with tech support it appears  that they have had several reports of Nvidia  dual monitor systems conflcuitinh with dell Alienware.   from CA Tech- " We have had several calls now from people running Alienware computers with two monitors and NVidia cards. They have all been fixed by uninstalling the Alienware Command Center software. The other software that has been mentioned is the Alienware Sound Center application.